Medical Equipment and Robotics

Code:

EBE0145

Acronym:

ERME

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Biomedical Engineering

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.fe.up.pt/1011/course/view.php?id=203
E-learning page:	http://moodle.fe.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Bioengineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEB	9	Syllabus	1	-	5	42	135
MIB	25	Syllabus	4	-	5	42	135
PRODEB	1	Syllabus	1	-	5	42	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course enables students with knowledge and skills in the areas of electronic equipment and robotics and its application to several areas of Bioengineering. Specifically, it is expected that in the end the students are able to:

In the area of equipment
Students should acquire the competence to analyze, evaluate and design basic systems of acquisition, processing and visualization of biological signals.

In the area of Robotics
Illustrate, describe and explain the application of robotic technology to the areas of Bioengineering.
Categorizing and discriminating sensors to robotic systems.
Categorize and discriminate different configurations of robotic systems.
Select a robotic manipulator for a given medical application (eg surgery, rehabilitation) depending on the characteristics of the robots and the requirements and problems of the practical task.
Categorize and discriminate different configurations of mobile robots.
Select a mobile robot for a given application (eg monitoring and surveillance of patients in a ward, transportation of drugs across areas of the hospital, rehabilitation of movement).
Critical interpretation of the problems and potential of Medical Robotics (robots, surgical robotics, rehabilitation robots to assist the mobility robots for surveillance and monitoring of patients, robots that provide clinical support services).

Program

Medical Equipment
1. Basic concepts of medical instrumentation: generic structure of medical diagnostic equipment, generic features static and dynamic, regulation of medical equipment.
2. Sensors: principles and applications, displacement sensors, inductive, capacitive, resistive and piezoelectric
3. Amplification and signal processing: operational amplifiers, basic circuits, differential amplifiers, differentiators and integrators, comparators, rectifiers, precision, logarithmic amplifiers, active filters, frequency range, DC errors.
4. Biopotential amplifiers: basic requirements, the electrocardiograph - interferences, common-mode rejection. Other applications of biopotential amplifiers.
5. Electrical Safety: physiological effects of electricity; susceptibility parameters, macro and micro shocks, the distribution of energy, protection against electrical network and equipment, electrical safety regulations for medical equipment.

Medical Robotics

1. Introduction
What is a robot? Past, present and future of the definition of robot and in particular in the context of biomedical engineering.
A brief history of automation and robotics and its application to biomedical engineering.
Robotic manipulators and mobile robots: Examples of applications in the areas of health.
Videos of applications in rehabilitation medicine, surgery, aid mobility and patient monitoring, hospital auxiliaries.
Security issues: an important factor in medical robotics.

2. Sensors, measures and perception
Introduction: what to measure and how to measure depending on the desired task to the robot?
Sensor types.
Artificial vision systems.

3. Types of robots
Robotic
Mobile Robots

4. Medical Robotics
Surgical Robots
Rehabilitation Robotics
Robots to assist the mobility
Robots for monitoring and surveillance of patients
Robots that provide clinical support services

Mandatory literature

Annual Rev. Biomedical Engineering
John G. Webster, ed; Medical instrumentation. ISBN: 978-0471-67600-3
Springer Handbook of Robotics, B. Siciliano, O. Khatib, (eds), 2008
V. Bozovic (ed.); Medical Robotics, Intech, 2008

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures/tutorials (3h/semana).

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Biomedical enginnering

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	42,00
	Exame	4,00		2011-12-15
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	89	2011-12-15
	Total:	89,00

Eligibility for exams

In addition to the general rules applied at FEUP, a minimum test average grade of 9.5/20 will be required.

Calculation formula of final grade

2 tests: 2x 50%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Exams at the designated dates

Classification improvement

Remedial exam ("Recurso" in Portuguese)